Favorite Christmas Music???

[sikiguya]

OK, one of the radio stations in Chicago has already went to all Christmas/Holiday pogramming. I listened to it today and was happy at hearing the oldies played.

1. Favorite song of the season?

2. Saddest song of the season??

3. Funniest song of the season??

4. Sing out loud song??

5. Childhood memories??

Heather

 

[mattywashboy]

1) The Christmas Song- John Lennon
2) Silent Night
3) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
4) Deck The Halls
5) The First Noel- my choir at school won and award for most touching performance of the song- i was a soloist in the choir.

 

[aquarius1984]

1 Wham! Last christmas. 2. Johnny Mathis When a child is born. 3. The Waitresses Christmas Wrapping. 4 Slade Merry Christmas everyone. ITS CHRISTMAS! Lol. 5 Bandaid Do they know its Christmas? But each of these songs except when a child is born are sing alongs for me. There is something about bursting out Bah Humbug (first line of the tune) when the waitresses are on that is sooo that start of xmas for me LOL. Nick.

 

[oxydolfan1]

I love the Waitresses as well, and Chryssie Hynde's "2000 Miles".

Also "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole".

I've loved "O Little Town of Bethlehem" by Babs, and "Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep" by Tammy Wynette.

Anything by Kenny G (including holiday music) is banned from my home, as is "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" by Bruce Springsteen.

 

[pulsatron]

Christmas music

1.Favourite-When a child is born -Brook Benton
2.Saddest-Silver Bells(my late Mum's favourite decoration was silver bells.)
3.Funniest-Rockin around the Christmas tree.
4.Sung outloud-Mary's boy child-Boney M.
5.Childhood memories-at a school play singing Hark!now the angels sing.
Cheers.

 

[oxydolfan1]

My condolences on your loss, Pulsatron.

I like the Brook Benton one too.

 

[58limited]

1. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
2. The little Drummer Boy
3. Don't know the name, goes "I want a hippopotamus for Christmas..."
4. Joy To The World
5. Christmas carolling with friends and family

 

[westytoploader]

Wow...can't really pick just "one" here!

1. Step into Christmas--Elton John, or All I want for Christmas is You--Mariah Carey
2. The Christmas Song...but sad in a "positive" way because it brings back memories of Christmas when I was younger
3. Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
4. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree--Brenda Lee version, or Jingle Bell Rock
5. Up on the Housetop, Jingle Bells, The Christmas Song, and Deck the Halls

 

[westytoploader]

Almost forgot!

I also want to add "Here Comes Santa Claus" by Elvis to #2 and #5...makes me think of many memories as well.

 

[frigilux]

Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade
The entire White Christmas album by Bing Crosby (see, I am a traditionalist after all)

 

[deeptub]

Ella Fitzgerald--Sleigh Ride (on just about every hardware store/tire dealer Christmas album in the 60s/70s)
Doris Day--Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow (she sang it like the love song it really is)
Anything by the Ray Conniff singers (what better time to be cheesy than Christmas?)

T.

 

[angus]

Hmm...well this is a tough one, but......
1. no particular favorite song, but favorite album is the Phil Spector Christmas Album. Anyone who grew up in the five boroughs during the 60's can identify with that album immediately and today it is still one of the top selling Christmas CD's. Unfortunately for some reason, the CD doesn't have nearly the great sound as the original LP. And that album almost didn't make it. Originally introduced in December 1963 to a country still in mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy and to a borough (Brooklyn) reeling from a deadly event where a crippled jet liner trying to land at LaGuardia in a snowstorm literally crashed into several blocks in Park Slope, it was hampered by almost non existent sales. However by the next year, it soared... and the rest is history

2. Saddest for me is either Rosemary Clooney's or Judy Garland's Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas with Johnny Mathis' I'll Be Home For Christmas as a close second on the secular side. On the religious side, it has to be O Holy Night, which was my mother's favorite and every time I hear it, I still feel like someone hit me across the lower back with a crowbar

3. Funniest..hmm...can't think of one right now.

4. Sing out loud song..Diana Ross' Childrens' Song (Ding Dong)

5. Favorite Childhood Memory... Has to be the Chipmunk Song - the first Christmas song I actually remember and of course going downtown to Fulton Street to the flagship Abraham & Straus department store with my mother, aunts and cousins to view the great revolving tree in the central elevator lobby. Then on to Junior's for ice cream sodas.

 

[sikiguya]

My Choices

1. Anything by Bing Crosby
2. Last Christmas by Wham
3. Dominick the Donkey, not sure who sings it
I also like the Hippo song too (like 58limited)
4. Do you hear what I hear?
5. Mele Kahlikimaka by Jimmy Buffet (parents were Parrot Heads)

 

[jasonl]

1. Favorite song of the season? Joy To The World

2. Saddest song of the season?? I don't know the name of it but it's that sappy one where the little boy's trying to buy shoes for his dying mother. He doesn't have enough money so the people around give him money.

3. Funniest song of the season?? Dominic The Donkey by Lou Monte ("Chingada ching - hee haw hee haw - It's Dominic the Donkey")

4. Sing out loud song?? Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

5. Childhood memories?? The Pat Boone Family Christmas album.

 

[rinso]

1. Favorite song of the season: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2. Saddest song of the season: Hard Candy Chritmas
3. Funniest song of the season: Christmas Time in Hell
4. Sing out loud song: Winter Wonderland
5. Childhood memories: Here Comes Santa Claus

 

[nickuk]

1) Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas / Peter Cetera - Something That Santa Claus Left Behind
2) Dan Fogelberg - Same Auld Lang Syne
3)Kevin `Bloody' Wilson ' - Santa Claus
4) Pogues and Kirsty Macoll - A Fairy Tale of New York
5) Band Aid - Do They Know it's Christmas

 

[goatfarmer]

1) James Brown. Santa Claus,Go straight to the Ghetto

2) Silent Night Temptations

3)Sausage and Sauerkraut for Santa Pala Bros. polka band

4)Christmas Song Nat "King" Cole

5)The Chipmunks I remember watching them sing it on TV.

kennyGF

kennyGF

 

[MikeS]

1. Favorite song of the season? "Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt. Forget Madonna; Kitt is the real deal. And when do I get my '54 convertible...light blue?

2. Saddest song of the season?? "I'll Be Home For Christmas" always makes me cry.

3. Funniest song of the season?? "Grandma Got Run Over By A Raindeer," of course!

4. Sing out loud song?? "Winter Wonderland"--Mom sang it with other mothers during a PTA show at my elementary school in the 1960's, and I haven't forgotten it since.

5. Childhood memories?? Our family's tacky white and silver aluminum Christmas tree that we had to drag out of the garage every year since the early '60's. My sister and I finally demanded a green tree. Mom and dad heeded our request and bought--you guessed it--a fake green tree!

Honorable Mention: Phil Spector's Christmas Album. Nearly perfect holiday joy when Spector could do no wrong.

 

[mrjames]

Favorite Christmas Music

My favorite Christmas cd is titled Gift Wrapped by my friend, Lesley Gore. This cd contains the great song If Every Night Were Christmas Eve. Others are Jingle Bell Rock; Winter Wonderland; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; My Christmas Party.